Five weeks after our last update of December 24 on the Bayou Corne sinkhole, we are finding that things actually look a bit worse. The water levels seems higher, and the work efforts appear to have subsided. Equipment has been removed, and the homes to the west and northwest of the sinkhole look seriously unpopulated. The recent seismic activity has people and the government concerned, and evacuees cannot expect to be able to return to their homes or communities any time soon.

Five weeks after our last update of December 24 on the Bayou Corne sinkhole, we are finding that things actually look a bit worse. The water levels seems higher, and the work efforts appear to have subsided. Equipment has been removed, and the homes to the west and northwest of the sinkhole look seriously unpopulated. The recent seismic activity has people and the government concerned, and evacuees cannot expect to be able to return to their homes or communities any time soon.

Here's the problem I have with this flyover.The camera is being very selective with the tight angles.In order to form an opinion of this situation, I would needto see where this extends to, where the high ground boundaries remain, and how close this is to any knownlandmarks or cities.

Also, what other areas are experiencing high water in the area or salt water aquifers coming in underground.

Here's the problem I have with this flyover.The camera is being very selective with the tight angles.In order to form an opinion of this situation, I would needto see where this extends to, where the high ground boundaries remain, and how close this is to any knownlandmarks or cities.

Also, what other areas are experiencing high water in the area or salt water aquifers coming in underground.

Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1482838

there are many threads on GLP about this.some have been updating from last Aug.you can follow what has been going on down there.

Here's the problem I have with this flyover.The camera is being very selective with the tight angles.In order to form an opinion of this situation, I would needto see where this extends to, where the high ground boundaries remain, and how close this is to any knownlandmarks or cities.

Also, what other areas are experiencing high water in the area or salt water aquifers coming in underground.

Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1482838

You can try to shill all you want man, that thing popped up and grew to what it was today in under 6 mo.

Here's the problem I have with this flyover.The camera is being very selective with the tight angles.In order to form an opinion of this situation, I would needto see where this extends to, where the high ground boundaries remain, and how close this is to any knownlandmarks or cities.

Also, what other areas are experiencing high water in the area or salt water aquifers coming in underground.

Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1482838

Hey AC - You should maybe take a look through the links that the other posters have been kind enough to provide. Everything you're looking for is not hard to find.

here is a good quote from the DHS person in charge...given last Monday.

snipWhen the sink hole burped, it sent crude oil and debris into the air. The director of the Assumption Parish Homeland Security said instead of more drilling and clean up, they're going to do more scientific testing.

Everything everybody thought they knew about the Louisiana Sinkhole changed with the latest ‘Belch’ event on January 19th, 2013, for the geology that existed prior, no longer exists.

This is a whole new animal we are now dealing with. With an overburden of water, the combination of the ‘thumper trucks’ performing a Vertical Seismic Profile (VSP) for the five days prior, and then Friday the ‘T-Rex’ Tri-Axial set off a chain of events, that has moved around the rock structures, and allowed new migration zones for the formation gas, and even the bedded gas from the salt edge, (whatever is left of it at the top), and that the prior VSP readings are now completely useless.

If ‘Officials’ had backed off when they noticed the seismic events, and the casing pressure rising at the Oxy 3A OBW to over 923 psig, then the event would have settled within days. Instead they kept it up, then proceeded to finish it off with the T-Rex tri-axial array, and render any and all readings taken to date useless.

Nothing is the same underneath this disaster area as it was. If this had been performed in September, then this whole situation may have been mitigated by now.

“Hoffpauir, a technical staff associate with the University of Texas’ Geotechnical Engineering Program, said the diesel-powered T-Rex, which has 6-feet tall wheels, can send seismic waves into the ground in three dimensions, or tri-axially, from a central vibrating plate.

“It’s the only one in the United States” that can do that, Hoffpauir said.”

And;

“The waves started at a low frequency and quickly picked up speed, sounding something like a car engine revving from low to high revolutions. From behind the well, mild vibrations could be felt in the earth at the lowest frequencies but they dissipated at the highest frequencies.”

This also means there was extensive rock and possibly salt movement during this ‘belch’. It’s found a new path for the gas to migrate. Lots of rocks have shifted and changed position. This is not good news for the Crosstex Cavern 2.

Everything everybody thought they knew about the Louisiana Sinkhole changed with the latest ‘Belch’ event on January 19th, 2013, for the geology that existed prior, no longer exists.

This is a whole new animal we are now dealing with. With an overburden of water, the combination of the ‘thumper trucks’ performing a Vertical Seismic Profile (VSP) for the five days prior, and then Friday the ‘T-Rex’ Tri-Axial set off a chain of events, that has moved around the rock structures, and allowed new migration zones for the formation gas, and even the bedded gas from the salt edge, (whatever is left of it at the top), and that the prior VSP readings are now completely useless.

If ‘Officials’ had backed off when they noticed the seismic events, and the casing pressure rising at the Oxy 3A OBW to over 923 psig, then the event would have settled within days. Instead they kept it up, then proceeded to finish it off with the T-Rex tri-axial array, and render any and all readings taken to date useless.

Nothing is the same underneath this disaster area as it was. If this had been performed in September, then this whole situation may have been mitigated by now.

“Hoffpauir, a technical staff associate with the University of Texas’ Geotechnical Engineering Program, said the diesel-powered T-Rex, which has 6-feet tall wheels, can send seismic waves into the ground in three dimensions, or tri-axially, from a central vibrating plate.

“It’s the only one in the United States” that can do that, Hoffpauir said.”

And;

“The waves started at a low frequency and quickly picked up speed, sounding something like a car engine revving from low to high revolutions. From behind the well, mild vibrations could be felt in the earth at the lowest frequencies but they dissipated at the highest frequencies.”

This also means there was extensive rock and possibly salt movement during this ‘belch’. It’s found a new path for the gas to migrate. Lots of rocks have shifted and changed position. This is not good news for the Crosstex Cavern 2.